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The board ruled the club cannot meet unless a court permits it. Supporters cite the 1984 Equal Access Act and its “limited open forum” protections, while critics dispute what counts as such a forum. 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the future.The Buffalo,N.Y.School Boardvoted6-to-3to\"receive andfile\"rather than voteyes or no on the right of the Bible Club to meetat Buffalo's McKinley High School.The boardruled,also by the same 6-to-3 vote,that the clubcannotmeet unless anduntil a court says it can.  \nTara Burr,the student who formed the group,said that she was assured by her pastor that theBible Club would be protected by the EqualAccess Act,signed into law in 1984.The actstates that no public secondary school with a\"limited open forum\"can discriminate againststudent groups based on the content of theirspeech.  \nAlthough there was much heated argument atthe board meetingover what constituted a\"\"lim-ited open forum,\"the issue of whether any clubthat is religious in nature was legal under theFirst Amendment was not addressed.The BibleClubwas compared toskiclubs and the like,withno mention of the fact that skiing is not men-tioned in the Bill of Rights but religion is.  \nThe local press in Buffalo has referred to theBible Clubus a“study”group,but the students,in their written statement,say that the purposeoftheir meetings is “to pray about student andfaculty concerns and to share the good news ofthescripure.\"They alsostatethat theirmeetingswould be partially devoted to “asking thosepresent to share how God is working inour livesfor good andhow specific passages of the Bibleare giving us direction in our lives.\"In other  \nTheSecular Humanist Bulletin  \nwords,this Bible \"club\"is a forum for praying,preaching,and\"witnessing,\"hardly appropriatefor nstudy group—which makes its constitution-ality highly suspect.  \nThe three school board members who havesupported the club'sright to meet at McKinleyHigh have declared that church-state separationis passe with the passage of the Equal AccessAct.Robert A.Flowers,James W.Comerford,Jr.,and David B.Kelly claim that church-stateseparation,as weknow it,is dead.As Flowers,who has higher political aspirations,put it:\"It'sa whole new ballgame!\"  \nThe Bible Club,whose members all are Chris-tian,claims to be interdenominational.But theBishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Buffalowrote aletter to the school-board members indi-cating that his office would look favorably ona(Continued onp.2)  \n# U.S.Churches Remain Segregated,Study Finds\n\nIn asweeping study of mainline American reli-gious institutions,University of Massachusettssociologist Wade Clark Roof and HartfordSeminary professor William McKinney de-scribe Protestant churches as“among the mostsegregated major institutions\"in the country.They found that 85percent of black churchgoerscontinue to attend all-black churches,whileblack membership in\"white\"congregationsseldom exceeds 3 percent.Two exceptions:Northen Baptists and Seventh-Day Adventists,each with almost 30 percent black membership.The study also gave adetailed portrait of main-  \nu  \nu  \n\n| The Secular Humaniut Bulletinis ediedby Tom Franczyk and Tom Plynn asasupplemen to Faum louar Magazine and i poblichedby the Council for Democratic  \u003Cbr>and Secular Humanism(CODESH,Ine),anon-profit oporation,3159 Bailey Avenue,Buffalo NY 14215-0005.Phone(716)834-2921.  \u003Cbr>PaulKurtz,dio,and Andrea Szalanki,managing edio,Fam iocmav.Letenindeditorialinquiries should be addresedto:The Editor,Seculau Huomanisr Bulerin,  \u003Cbr>Buffalo,NY 14215-0005.   |\n| --- |\n\nlline Protestantism's declining numbers and in-ffluence.  \nlline Protestantism's declining numbers and in-ffluence.  \nForexample,the study shows that7.7 percentofAmericans born between 1958 and 1965 wereoMethodists—down from 16percent at the turmofthecentury.Personsmore than age50nowmaketuup46 percent of U.S.Episcopalians,up from 36ppercent three decades ago.  \nForexample,the study shows that7.7 percentofAmericans born between 1958 and 1965 wereoMethodists—down from 16percent at the turmofthecentury.Person","cbCaijkqKX9XtkBP","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaijkqKX9XtkBP","pdf",2119857,"English","# Public High School Bible Club 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